Chinese People Executed for Collaboration with Japan - Yoshiko Kawashima, Yin Ju-Keng, Liu Guitang, Chu Minyi, Liang Hongzhi, Chen Gongbo (Paperback)

Chapters: Yoshiko Kawashima, Yin Ju-Keng, Liu Guitang, Chu Minyi, Liang Hongzhi, Chen Gongbo. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Yoshiko Kawashima Kawashima Yoshiko, 24 May 1907 - 25 March 1948) was a Manchu princess brought up in Japan, who served as a spy in the service of the Japanese Kwantung Army and Manchukuo. Originally named Aisin Gioro Xianyu ( ) with the courtesy name Dongzhen (, literally meaning "Eastern Jewel"), her Chinese name was Jin Bihui (simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: pinyin: Jn B hu). She is sometimes known in fiction by the pseudonym as the "Eastern Mata Hari. She was executed as a traitor by the Kuomintang after the Second Sino-Japanese War. Aisin Gioro Xianyu was born in Beijing as the 14th daughter to Shanqi, the 10th son of Prince Su () of the Manchu imperial family. Adopted at the age of eight by her father's friend, Naniwa Kawashima, a Japanese espionage agent and mercenary adventurer after the Xinhai Revolution, she was renamed Kawashima Yoshiko, and was raised and educated in Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan. When she was 17, she began wearing menswear after failing an attempt at suicide. According to one theory, the reason why she began wearing menswear is said that she had been raped by her foster father. She has been targeted for sensational rumors, so it is difficult to clarify the truth. However, it is possible that she was transgender, who sometimes practice cross-dressing. In 1927, Kawashima married Ganjuurjab, the son of Inner Mongolian Army General Jengjuurjab, leader of the Mongolian-Manchurian Independence Movement based in Ryojun. The marriage ended in divorce after only two years, and Kawashima moved to the foreign concession in Shanghai. While in Shanghai, she met Japanese military attach and intel...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=230321